IRDA support

[Uwe Steinmann]

On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 01:45:12PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> Daniel Berlin wrote:
> >
> > Uwe Steinmann <steinm at majestix.fernuni-hagen.de> writes:
> >
> > > short question. Do any of the recent kernels support IRDA on a
> > > Pismo?
> > Nope.
> >
> > > If no, what needs to be done to make it work?
> >
> > Get it to actually turn it on properly, i would imagine.
> > it times out trying to send the setup bytes, or something like this.
>
> Yep, here's what I get running irattach when I replace the 'goto out' by break
> in irda_setup():
>
> PowerMac Z8530 serial driver version 2.0
> tty00 at 0xc9a1c020 (irq = 22) is a Z8530 ESCC (cobalt modem)
> tty01 at 0xc9a23000 (irq = 23) is a Z8530 ESCC (IrDA)
> irda_setup timed out on 1st byte
> irda_setup 1st byte = ff
> irda_setup timed out on 2nd byte
> irda_setup 2nd byte = ff (4f)
> irda_setup timed out on 1st byte
> irda_setup 1st byte = ff
> irda_setup timed out on 2nd byte
> irda_setup 2nd byte = ff (51)
>
>
> Hope this is meaningful to the people familiar with that code...
>
> I saw comments in macserial.c that it should work on older G3 PowerBooks, can
> anyone confirm that? What about iMacs?
>
>
> I'd really love to get this working for HotSync...
I'm glad not to be the only one who would like to see IRDA working.
Unfortunately, I'm not a kernel guru.

  Uwe
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